Need to learn how to run a trackhoe

ISO because when you move to bigger iron most machines that dont have a pattern changer are ISO. So if your familiar with ISO from the start its never an issue. That is not the case with SAE. You can change the hyd lines on the valve bank but its a pain and you have to know the machine to pull that off without experimenting. If I could do it again I would have learned ISO, since I went from wobble sticks on a backhoe, it became second nature to run SAE in an excavator. It has bitten me numerous times, but I am not interested in learning to run ISO at this point.

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I see. One of the companies we work alongside and have a very good relationship with just bought a brand new 374D Cat and I think you can change it.

I don't think I'll ever have to run a 170k pound machine but we'll see.

Never jumped in an excavator here on the west coast that wasn't ISO and if I had to guess, I'd say I've run well over 60 different hoes in the last 10 years. I feel like SAE is an east coast/backhoe situation.

Guys, just to clarify, Cat is actually the ones who run SAE and Deere has historically run ISO, not the other way around. Up here, it's almost unheard of to run into an ISO machine, 99.999% of machines run SAE.Posted via Mobile Device

Guys, just to clarify, Cat is actually the ones who run SAE and Deere has historically run ISO, not the other way around. Up here, it's almost unheard of to run into an ISO machine, 99.999% of machines run SAE.Posted via Mobile Device

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Yeah you're right, I get them confused. Word on the street is always "Cat or Deere", forget the damn acronyms.